I'm not sure if this is so much a Perl question but a UNIX question. To perform remote commands you need to use the rsh command. Make sure that on your remote server you are accepting remote commands. To do this from within perl, you can do something like this:

On Microsoft Windows, if when you click or type the name of a .pl file, you get an error "is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file", then this means you do not have the .pl file extension associated with …

Checking the Alert Log in AWS RDS Oracle can be a pain through their user interface. I made a script to download the Alert Log, look for errors, and email me the trace files. In this article I'll describe what I did and share my script.